§ MR. LOUGHI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether it is true that an insanitary area in Lambeth belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall; and on what grounds the Duchy officials, who have been asked by the London County Council to improve it, have refused to do so?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThere is no insanitary area in Lambeth belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall. Some houses in the parish of Lambeth, known as the Salutation Place area, are erected on land belonging to the Duchy; but the Duchy has at present no power to interfere with 1333 the property, as, in accordance with special Acts of Parliament, it will not come into the Duchy's possession until 1909. The Duchy have offered to cooperate with the London County Council so far as the Duchy Acts allow.